Updated 10:00 pm, Monday, February 28, 2011

The motion will be considered at Wednesday's school board meeting when board members will hear testimony from the public.

The board will consider a similar motion for Don Kennedy, the district's chief financial and operating officer, as well as a motion to appoint Susan Enfield, the district's chief academic officer, as interim superintendent.

Goodloe-Johnson's employment came under question after an audit discovered $1.8 million in questionable spending by the school district.

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An independent report released last week showed a former top Seattle Public Schools official who now works for the Obama administration "bears responsibility" for not keeping tabs on a business development program run by the district that is now the subject of a criminal investigation.

The report says Fred Stephens, the former director of facilities and construction, and Goodloe-Johnson did not inform the school board of allegations of fraud and mismanagement that had been made about the program and investigated by a firm in 2008.

The report by Seattle attorney Patricia Eakes, who was hired by the district to review issues related to the scandal, clears Goodloe-Johnson and the school board.

However, the school board had been considering firing Goodloe-Johnson or buying out her contract.

"She is, of course, much further from the issues, but again, things were raised at her level that perhaps could've been perceived, and I would've expected a greater level of push back and aggressive corrective action," said Seattle School Board President Steve Sundquist during a previous interview.

Eakes' report says Stephens should have been more diligent in his oversight of the suspect development program. Stephens resigned from the school district in July and has since been appointed as deputy assistant secretary for administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce.

A probe by the state Auditor's Office into the program revealed $1.5 million for services with a "questionable public purpose" and $280,000 for services that were never provided. The audit has since led to an investigation by Seattle police and the King County Prosecutor's office under a secretive "inquiry judge" process, in which witnesses and records can be subpoenaed, according to a source in the prosecutor's office.

The program's manager, Silas Potter, resigned June 7 as the investigation was starting. Potter reported to Stephens. Potter's whereabouts are unknown.